Behavior

Intellicage

The New Standard For Behavioral And Cognitive Phenotyping In The Home Cage

In depth screening of individual experimental animals in a social context

Up to 16 animals per cage, efficient testing, high throughput

Maximal standardization and reproducibility

Minimal human intervention, high validity

Fully automated task performance

Broad variety of accessible data

Flexible design of paradigms

The IntelliCage allows you to assess the home cage behavior and cognitive performance of up to 16 individual mice or rats separately while they are living in a social environment. This unique experimental setup fosters natural social behavior in a biologically relevant, enriched but highly standardized home cage context. In this way, the IntelliCage minimizes the need for handling and human intervention, thereby increasing task validity, data reproducibility and ensuring a high level of animal welfare.

RFID transponder tagged animals are individually recognized in the fully automated conditioning corners that evaluate spontaneous behavior, operant/associative learning and memory. The four corners are equipped with sensors (continuous 24h-recording of behavioral events) and actors (allowing the system to feedback on animals’ behavior in a pre-defined way). Together with the software package using a programmable user interface, this unique sensor/actor principle grants direct behavioral shaping of group-housed animals in an all-in-one system according to diverse research interests. The visually designed paradigms run fully automated, allowing for efficient continuous testing and monitoring of large experimental animal cohorts.

With the VideoMot system animals in nearly every arena can be tracked. Animals are detected in 3 points (head/center/tail base tracking) by a contrast filter (up to 2 animals per arena), or – in the color tracking system – by tracking color tags on the animals’ back (up to 8 animals per arena). Several arenas can be observed with one camera at a time. An unlimited number of zones of interest can be generated per arena to perform spatial analyses. Zones of interest can also be used to control data acquisition.

The output file includes information on the speed of the animal, time spent in each predefined zone of your maze, distance travelled and many more. VideoMot is routinely used for Open Field, Morris Water Maze, Radial Maze, T- and Y-Maze, Elevated Plus Maze, Light-Dark test, Object Recognition and Social Interaction tests but any test arena you can separate into zones is possible. Each experiment creates a video file for future/further analysis.

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